144. Reduce Temporary Internet File Space

The temporary internet files clutter your hard drive with copies of each page visited. These can build up over time and take up disk space. Even more bothersome is that instead of getting new pages each time IE often takes the page out the temp internet files. This can be a problem if you are viewing a website that is updated all the time. If you are on a slow connection such as a 56K or lower then this can be good but if you are on a fast broadband connection, like me, then you can get away with decreasing the size of your temp internet files to just one meg without any performance decrease.

Launch Internet Explorer.
Select the Tools from the menu bar.
Then select Internet Options... from the drop down menu.
Once the internet options has loaded click on the general tab.
Under the temporary internet files section click the settings button.
A settings window will load. Slide the slider all the way to the left so the size indicated in the text box on the right is one.
Click OK
Click Ok

116. how to add Internet Explorer to your Sendto folder

To Add Internet Explorer to your SendTo folder

* Start - Run (type) "sendto" (no quotes) File - New - Shortcut
* In the command line, (highlight and paste the below - including quotes)
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"

Note: IE supports opening: .gif, jpg, htm, html, .txt, ico, etc.

Windows Vista users will need to navigate to the following location:
Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
[or]
Start | Run (type) shell:sendto (click Ok)

Right-click in the right pane and select: New > Shortcut
In the command line, (highlight and paste the below - including quotes)
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"

114. Internet Explorer / Mozilla Firefox Shortcut keys

Shortcut	Utility
Ctrl + A	Select all items on a webpag
Ctrl + C	Copy a selected item to the clipboard
Ctrl + V	Paste an item from the clipboard into a document
Ctrl + D	Add the current page/document to your favorites
Ctrl + E	Open the IE search utility
Ctrl + F	Open the FIND box to search the current document
Ctrl + H	Open the History utility
Ctrl + I	Open the Favorites utility
Ctrl + L or Ctrl + O	Go to a new location/document
Ctrl + N	Open a new window
Ctrl + T	Open a new tab
Ctrl + P	To Print the current page/document
Ctrl + R or F5	To Refresh the current page/document
Ctrl + S	Save the current document/page
Ctrl + W	Close the current window / tab
Alt + Home Key	To go to your default homepage
Alt + Right arrow key	To go forward one page
Alt + Left arrow key	To go back one page
F11	To get the full page view
Alt + Spacebar + X	Window Maximize
Alt + Spacebar + R	Window Restore
Alt + Spacebar + N	Window Minimize

87.How to kill the IE About windows that popup from time to time

There is an Internet Explorer vulnerability to which allows some web sites to open a hidden popup tracking minimized window either upon your first visit or when you leave their web site or even when you close your browser while one of their web pages is still displayed. They do this by using the little known "about:" browser built-in command into their HTML/DHTML/XML code. Sometimes this window Go undetected as these are not resizable as you come to expect of a typical window app. If you do not have anything specific with www.about.com, there could be a registry tweak that you can do. Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE) by going to START-RUN and type regedit and navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Internet Settings\ZoneMap\ProtocolDefaults]
and add two DWORD keys"about" and "about:" and set its value to 4.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Doing this tweak would mean that you would not be able to use the blank about page as your startup page. There is a workaround for this by adding it to your zone ...but I do not like it and hence not mentioning it here.

82.How to block websites without any Softwares

1] Browse C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
2] Find the file named "HOSTS"
3] Open it in notepad
4] Under "127.0.0.1 localhost" Add 127.0.0.2 www.sitenameyouwantblocked.com , and that site will no longer be accessable.
5] Done!
-So-
127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.2 www.blockedsite.com
- www.blockedsite.com is now unaccessable

53.View pages in a new window

In Internet Explorer, hold the Shift key while clicking on a link to open the Web page in a new window.

49. How to make autodisconnect work in Internet explorer ?

If You are having problem setting autodisconnect in Internet explorer 6 , here is a tip for You Open Registry by going to START-RUN and entering REGEDIT and Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters] and look for autodisconnect parameter. Change its value to whatever You want (in minutes).
Alternately You can try this from command prompt: net config server /autodisconnect:30 -to set the autodisconnect to 30 minutes. Microsoft have a detailed article dealing on this titled How Autodisconnect Works in Windows NT and Windows 2000 (Q138365)

24. Change the default search engine in Internet explorer?

Default search engine of Microsoft Internet explorer is MSN. But there are better search engines available. I like google.com and you may have your own preference. Recently I came across article that indicated how to change the default search engine through registry. Open registry editor by going to START-RUN and entering regedit and navigate to following three keys separately and change it as shown below:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]"Search Page"="http://www.google.com/""Search Bar"="http://www.google.com/ie" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL]""="http://www.google.com/keyword/%s" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search]"SearchAssistant"="http://www.google.com/ie"(This example is specific to google but there is a Microsoft article that I found on their support site which described show to do it for many other engines. Read all of it at: http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;q198279

10. Change font size by mouse wheel

Now you can change your font size without going to the font menu.
Just hold 'ctrl' key and scroll your mouse wheel.
Hey... your font size is changing.
This trick will work various softwares like Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer...etc.

7.Bored by typing 'www________.com"...!!!

In the Address Bar, type "google" and hit Ctrl+Enter. Internet Explorer automatically inserts the "http://www/." and ".com" for you.

3. Costomize your IE's titlebar

-Click Start > Run > Type gpedit.msc
-Click User Configuration > Windows Setting > Internet Explorer Maintenance > Browser User Interface
-Double click on Browser Title Click on Customize Title Bars.
-Change the text to what whatever you want Click on Ok